Card holder



Jan.291929. 1,700,279

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM B. BOLSING-ER, OF LGS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

CARD HOLDER.

Application filed November 301927. Serial No. 236,791.

This invention relates to gaine apparat-us and more particularly to a card holder by ineans of which playing cards niay be supported in an upright position in such relation to each other that the indicating characters of the cards may be readily seen.

Ono object of the invention is to provide a card. holder consisting of an elongated body having grooves formed therein and constituting card-receiving seats, the grooves being` so cut that the cards will be disposed diagonally of the carrier and to further perrnit the cards to face either end of the elongated body.

Another object of the invention is to provide a card holder which will not be liable to turn over when cards are supported in its grooves and also to pern'iit the cards to be very easily inserted or reinoved from the holder without danger of their being torn or otherwise marred.

The invention is illustrated in 'the accorapanying drawing, wherein Figure l is a top plan view of the improved card holderj and Fig. 2 is a view showin@ the card holder in side elevation and cards supported thereby indicated by dotted lines.

The improved card holder consists of an elongated body l which is preferably forined from a strip of wood of a suitable length and width but niay be forined of metal if so de sired. rlhe body may be solid or hollow and, if metal, may be forined of sheet nietal. lts upper and lower faces 2 and .3 are flat throughout its length and )arallel to each other and its side and end faces l and 5 eX- tend at right angles to its lower face. rlhe upper face of the body is of less length and width than the lower face and joined 'to the side and end faces b y beveled faces 6 and 7 which converge upwardly. lt will thus be seen that the portion of the body below the beveled faces 6 and l will be of greater width than its upper portion and, therefore, the body will not be liable to be easily tilted when inserting or removing cards and there will be less danger of the cards slipping out of engagement with the body. Grooves 8 and 9 are foi-ined in the body and extend diagonally across its upper face with their end portions opening through the beveled side faces 6 and these grooves are of a depth corresponding to the depth of the beveled faces. By an inspection of Fig. l, it will be seen that the grooves 8 are parallel and evenly spaced from each other and entend in crossed relation to the `grooves 9 which are also parallel and evenly spaced freni each other. Since the grooves 8 and 9 extend right angles to each other, the cards to be supported niay be inserted into either the grooves cl or the grooves 9 and when so supported will face a selected end of the carrier so that a person may very easily see the cards. By having thc cards fitted into the grooves, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, their indicating characters will be exposed, as clearly shown in this ligure, and, therefore, there will be no danger of a person failing to play the proper card by not being able to see all of the cards. T he beveled faces not only cause the lower portion of the holder to be of greater width than its Lipper portion butalso permit the cards to be easily fitted into the grooves or renioved therefrom without danger of the cards catching in the grooves and becoming torn. Pads l0 are provided so that the support may be placed upon a table without danger of scratching a polished surface. 'f he pads also serve to prevent the holder from slipping out of a desired position upon the table.

Having thus described the inventioin I claim: y n

l. A card holder comprising an elongated body having parallel upper and lower faces and side and endv :faces extending freni the lower face at right angles thereto, the upper `portion of the block being beveledfroin the upper face to intermediate the depth of the side and end faces to forno flat bordering faces converging upwardly, said body having grooves formed therein extending transversely across the upper face. thereof and opening through the said liordering faces whereby cards may be readily inserted into the grooves and supported therein.

2 A card holder comprising an elongated body having parallel upper and lower faces and side and end faces extending from the lower face atright angles thereto, the upper portion of the block being beveled from the upper face to intermediate the depth of the side and end faces to forni flat bordering faces converging upwardly7 said body having grooves formed therein extending diagonally across the upper face thereof with their ends opening through the bordering faces and being of a depth corresponding to the bordering faces.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

l/VILLIAM B. BOLSINGER. [L. s] 

